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1000x
1000x is a crypto-markets podcast hosted by professional traders Avi Felman and Jonah Van Bourg, with expert conversations on the macro and micro factors behind digital money, tokenomics, and price action.
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MARKET UPDATE: Alts Ripping, Economy Crushing, Scammers Scamming — What’s Next?
Avi’s GP dispute alleges holders publicly promised to hold while selling concealed inventory, making on-chain wallet behavior the key test of verifiable trust.Both hosts contrast meme-coin speculation with positive-sum crypto built on “good product, good revenues, good team,” citing Avi’s ZRO-versus-ETH trade and Robinhood’s perpetuals rollout through Bitstamp.They frame five-year mega trends, retail investors’ tolerance for volatility and AI-driven concentration as the durable signals, while leaving the best expression—broad exposure or concentrated winners—unresolved.
MARKET UPDATE: Meta, Bitcoin, Crude And The Economy Are All Ripping. How Long Can It Last?
Avi frames ten-year yields above 5% as distrust in the Fed, supporting his long-and-strong stance on Bitcoin, Intel, and Nasdaq.AI-driven copper demand may push copper toward $8, while lab-grown diamonds at $6 per carat expose monopoly economics.Cheaper AI could expand usage and GDP, but rising yields pressure real estate as Jonah watches early-to-mid-2027 for capitulation.
MARKET UPDATE: Crypto Is Used To Buy Oil?! FED Meeting, And Economy Ripping
A sovereign-authorized USDT oil purchase, despite a failed $230M Venezuelan deal, signals stablecoins entering commodity settlement while the underlying failure reflected diligence, not crypto.AI-driven copper scarcity and Meta’s frontier push sharpen the competitive map, but model prices at 1–10% of frontier offerings and a roughly two-year superintelligence timeline leave unresolved disruption risk.
MARKET UPDATE: Live With GMoney, Inflation Is In, Is This The Crypto Top?
An in-line CPI print makes a next-meeting hike near-certain, but Avi says AI capex may mean the cycle will not last.Nvidia’s neocloud financing could become capital-light SaaS-like revenue after roughly two years of consolidation.Tokenized-stock pairings may create on-chain demand; Quotrons has roughly $10M market cap, and FWA depends on sustained top-of-funnel spins.
MARKET UPDATE: Hunter Biden Scams Us, $INTC Rips, Commodities Onchain, Anthropic's Skynet Risk
Bitcoin’s failure to clear $80K has Jonah turning short-term bearish, with a “quite high” probability of falling below $70K.Stocks migrating onchain through Lighter and Hyperliquid could leave Nasdaq behind, while $LAPTOP’s fall from $1.5B to about $630M highlights political-token extraction risk.
MARKET UPDATE: Hot Payrolls, Hotter Memecoins, And Se From FOMO Talks The Future Of Trading
Crypto is rallying on debasement, social trading, and RWA theses, while FOMO’s on-chain HOOD trade suggests attention can precede revenue recognition.FOMO’s 5–10% daily growth and $4 million creator payouts support an organic network thesis, but 94.4% of users lost money and scale remains unproven; monitor Bitcoin’s six-month-to-one-year catalyst and whether meme markets get solved.
MARKET UPDATE: What Is MemeFi, WAR With Iran, & The Fed Not Backing Down — What You Need To Know
MemeFi is rotating between stories rather than attracting a broad 2020–November 2021-style wave, while Robinhood Chain’s weekly volume rose from $500M to $1.5B.Jonah says value may accrue to FOMO, exchanges, Vlad Tenev, or underlying protocols rather than ordinary traders, leaving sub-1% sizing, multi-cycle durability, frontier-model productivity, and Iran’s Hormuz leverage as risks to monitor.
Why The $30B Asset Manager Franklin Templeton Is Betting Big On Crypto
Franklin Templeton’s acquisition of Seth Ginns’s CoinFund liquid-fund spinout expands its crypto team, advancing a 2026 convergence thesis while prices lag sell-side momentum.CLARITY’s vote could bring federal preemption if passed; failure would slow progress, leaving commercial adoption as the hedge against political pushback.
MARKET UPDATE: Bitcoin Rally, Zcash ETF, Bessent Humbled, NVDA Earnings
Bitcoin’s 25% rally toward $80K reflects a shift from AI productivity to Treasury and Fed-driven debasement, after equity vol cooled and Bessent deployed capital to defend yields.Avi sees a reasonable chance of $95K-$100K within six weeks and substantial ZCAF flows, with $15.5M in day-one volume comparable to BSOL as a percentage of market cap.The key risk is that this remains an early-innings lockout rally rather than a new bull trend, while NVDA’s crowded short positioning creates a potential one-to-two-day rebound catalyst into earnings.
What It’s Like Running A Billion-Dollar Market-Neutral Fund In Crypto
Evgeny Gokhberg argues his fund earns 11%–12% consistently by supplying the capital that DeFi platforms such as Uniswap lack, effectively performing banks’ lending and market-making roles on chain.Its edge is a probabilistic AAA-to-CCC risk framework and survival discipline, while tokenized stocks and tranching create new opportunity but AI-driven false positives, legacy OPSEC vulnerabilities, and forced selling remain risks to monitor.